The Theater: Old Skin, New Vim

Most Broadway offerings are based on the obvious notion that a show is
not worth producing unless it promises to enrich its backers as a
long-run hit. Last week, however, Broadway blossomed with a smash hit
that broke rules, and may break records. The American National Theatre
and Academy (ANTA) opened its revival of Thornton Wilder's timeless
piece of vaudevillian anthropology. The Skin of Our Teeth, first
produced in 1942 (and greeted by a mixed chorus of cheers and
catcallsplus a Pulitzer Prize). The ANTA production's glittering
stars: the U.S. theater's Grande Dame...